With the discontinuation of Forefront Protection for SharePoint , Microsoft no longer provides a streaming antivirus solution for SharePoint. This has lead to an ever increasingly common customer question, “what do I use for SharePoint antivirus?”. This...

This was a question asked on the MSDN Forums but I thought it was worthy of a blog post as I could get more in depth with the explanation and show some pretty pictures (plus the fact I’ve never done it so thought it would be fun). The problem was a user...

by Jeff Cate Last fall, my employees came to me and complained that they could not get the answers to their business questions from our data. We have TONS of data. We are a small company, but are highly automated and have data in ERP, CRM, Marketing Automation...

Body: Back in December there started to be some rumblings about a regression introduced in the August 2012 CU (14.0.6126). I first saw it as a question on Stack Exchange . It was reported to me by a couple of other people, so I added it to the August...

Here’s a script that will walk through all Site Collections in all Web Applications (i.e. your entire farm) and delete any user from the Site Collection that isn’t in ActiveDirectory anymore. Note this will not remove them from their user profiles, it...

I’ve made a number of posts on the fact that IE9 is forced into IE8 mode via a meta-tag due to the fact IE9 and SharePoint 2010 don’t seem to play so well. If you are wondering what it all … Read more › Read More...

I ran across a situation today where a client wanted to store and manage dates that were earlier then 1900. The out of box SharePoint Date/Time metadata column doesn’t allow this. Without custom coding, your only option is to store this data as...

This meant to be a note to self, but I thought it might be helpful for some of you too. Here we go: If John has “Read” permission level to a document named sales.docx, John is able to search and find this document and view it either in Office...

Not sure if you noticed this, but in SharePoint 2013 when you setup a sync connection you can exclude disabled users by just clicking on a checkbox. Given that, you no longer need to setup a filter like what you did in SharePoint 2010 ( see my blog post...

As a SharePoint developer a wise choice is to run your Virtual Machines on a separate drive (separate from your OS drive). That way you gain some performance as two different operating systems are not contending for precious read/write times on the disk...

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Since we kicked off the Sweden SharePoint User Group (or SSUG) a couple of years back, we’ve managed to keep a great flow and balance...

One of the best things about responsive design in my opinion is that it finally forces us to start thinking about what we’re building. Your goal can’t simply be to mash a bunch of images and text on a page … Read more › Read More...